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Heavy rains have flooded parts of central China’s Henan province, upending the lives of tens of millions and leaving at least 12 dead. More than 20cm of rain fell in one hour in Zhengzhou, the regional capital, flooding the city’s subway system and maj…
More than 30 people have died in the Indian city after an intense burst of rainfall caused flooding and landslides, as changing monsoon patterns because of the climate crisis lead to more extreme rains across India.The landslide in the eastern sub…
Thai police have fired water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets to stop protesters from marching on the office of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha calling for him to resign. More than 1,000 protesters took part in the demonstration despite an expande…
The International Olympics Committee president, Thomas Bach, mistakenly referred to Japanese people as ‘Chinese’ during a Tokyo 2020 press conference in Japan. The gaffe was not translated by interpreters at the conference. He corrected himself quickly…
A fire at a juice-making factory in Bangladesh has killed 52 people and injured 20. The fire started late on 8 July on the ground floor of the six-storey factory in Narayanganj, south-east of Dhaka, and firefighters were still struggling to contain it …
Joe Biden has said the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war will conclude on 31 August and added there will be no ‘mission accomplished’ moment to celebrate. ‘We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,’ the US president sai…
Boris Johnson has announced the end of Britain’s military mission in Afghanistan, following a hasty and secretive exit of the last remaining troops 20 years after the post-9/11 invasion that started the ‘war on terror’. Speaking in the Commons, the pri…
It’s been dubbed ‘tangping’ – shunning tough careers to chill out instead. But how is the Communist party taking the birth of this new counterculture?Name: Low-desire life.Age: People – young ones especially – have been rebelling, dropping out, rejecti…
At least 45 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the south of the country, officials have said. Ninety-two people, most of them recent …
Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned ‘foreign forces’ who attempt to bully China will ‘get their heads bashed’. In an hour-long televised address from Tiananmen Square marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi pledged to build…
China’s National Space Administration has released footage captured by the country’s Mars probe. The videos and photos taken by the camera installed on the Zhurong rover of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft show the lander deploying a parachute before touching …
Large crowds have queued in Hong Kong to buy the final edition of the Apple Daily. The closure of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper comes one week after five high-profile staff were arrested, the company’s office raided and millions of dollar…
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the country battles one of Asia’s worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 dea…
A hungry elephant crashed through a kitchen wall looking for something to eat in the early hours of Saturday morning in southern Thailand. Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon was awoken by crashing and banging. When she went to find out what had happened, she d…